(December 27, 2014 at 11:35 am)Stimbo Wrote: Yes, but salt is a fusion of sodium and chlorine. There's no possible way those specific atoms ever could have come together all by themselves without some kind of intelligent salt maker.LOL, I was tempted to explain that as well...it's a compulsion. Then I remembered that it doesn't matter, because our audience has trouble with anything even slightly more complicated than crayons.
(December 29, 2014 at 1:40 am)snowtracks Wrote: The membrane allow and disallows various substances by various specific channels within the membrane. Glucose molecules for example need to have an insulin molecule attached to gain entry thru a specific membrane gate or channel, and as such these type substances needs to be ‘actively’ transported thought to the cell by the expenditure of ATP energy. The mosaic structure to accommodate the various substances to first sense to allow or disallow, and then later transport thru the membrane is highly intricate.A product of life's billion year arms race. Since we aren't talking about modern cells, I don't see the relevance. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, as you have some practice with seeing things that aren't there.
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